At last and forever
Etta James “At Last!” Argo Lp 4003 (1961) Designed by Don Bronstein. What an album. What a song. What a performer. What a cover. For every Hall of Fame.
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(7 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5) Loading ...Rock n’ Roll camp
Here’s my copy of Esquerita! (1959) Capitol Records Esquerita was an obvious influence on Little Richard. Like Richard, a flaming, shrieking, piano-pounding rock and roll originator. Amazing that he was on Capitol records with label mates like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee. I put this one in a nice wood frame I found in a Berkeley record shop.
Tracks include: Hey Miss Lucy / She Left Me Crying / Hole In My Heart / Believe Me When I Say Rock ‘n’ Roll / I Need You / Why Did It Take You So Long / Get Back Baby / I’m Batty over Hattie / Gettin’ Plenty of Lovin’
(28 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Platinum blonde
Here’s a rare one for sure. This is Jayne Mansfield in fine form on the cover of a British compilation called “5 Star Party” featuring cuts by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Eddie Calvert, Russ Corway, The Dave Clark Five and Victor Silvester. Columbia EMI Records.
(29 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5) Loading ...How to pick up chicks
Kool and the Gang “Live at the Sex Machine Blue Elephant Records
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“Jalaito Sabroson” Los Ases del Ritmo Tropical Records
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“Speak Low” Hal Otis and His Orchestra Westminster Hi-Fi. Jayne Mansfield doesn’t have to say anything at all.
(40 votes, average: 4.35 out of 5) Loading ...Come fly with me
“Jaleo de Roock!” Vik Records (Can anyone help me find another copy?)
(20 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5) Loading ...Three of the ten commandments
Bill Haley and his Comets Decca Records. (1955) Includes “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock” the song that introduced rock & roll to White America. “Rock Around the Clock” was a modest hit until the song was used as the title track of “The Blackboard Jungle” some 12 months later. His next record was a cover of Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll’ which was a top ten hit and the first rock & roll record to sell a million copies!
(30 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5) Loading ...Sgt. Pecker
“Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins” John and Yoko Apple Records 1968
With all due respect, this is a true cultural touchstone. Imagine, 40 years ago, the leader of the most famous musical group in the world and one of the leading social, political and creative voices of his generation releasing an album with a cover of himself and his new girlfriend posing for a full-frontal nude . The Beatles had the freedom to do whatever they wanted and the whole world was watching. (This was just the second record released on their own Apple label after George Harrison’s solo Wonderwall soundtrack.) With this radical “artistic” statement, (looped bits and pieces of music and conversation recorded one night prior to John and Yoko “consummating” their relationship), the Beatles of old were clearly no more. Perhaps it took this kind of “up yours” statement to tear himself from the group and his public image and begin his journey as a solo artist. The response to it, and Yoko, from the press and the fans was vitriolic and unkind.
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Freddie Morgan is “Mr. Banjo.” Verve Records. “Conceived, produced and recorded under the personal supervision of Spike Jones.”
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